Cholwell House
CHOLWELL HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1129544
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Cholwell House
- Statutory Address:
- CHOLWELL HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1129544
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Cholwell House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHOLWELL HOUSE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHOLWELL HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Temple Cloud with Cameley
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 61702 58781
Details
ST 65 NW CAMELEY TEMPLE CLOUD
6/14 Cholwell House II
Nursing Home, former house. Dated 1855. Rock-faced coursed pennant stone with freestone dressings, concrete tile roof and ashlar stacks. Neo-Jacobean style. South east entrance front of 2 storeys, 3 bays: central bay half the width of outer 2 bays. All windows are 2-light casements with chamfered stone mullions and transoms, those on 1st floor with segmental-headed strainer arches. Central advanced porch with pointed-arched entrance under hoodmould with figure stops and shaped gable with pierced pyramid finial. Family crest and datestone beneath gable. 1st floor string course, stepped ogee and curvilinear coped gables with pierced, pyramid finials. Further, larger family crest and motto above upper central window. Recessed quatrefoil rosettes in flanking gables. South-west front with 3 bays through 2 floors, the central bay canted. Ground floor windows are tripartite with a pointed-arched central panel above 3-light chamfered stone mullions and transoms. Central bay originally 1 storey, now has upper extension with a cusped lozenge parapet and 4 corner carved faces. Tall ashlar stacks on plinths set in ranges of 6 on the diagonal. Interior. Several ribbed and bossed ceilings. Canted staircase window has stained glass and above, fine carved wooden tracery. (Drawings in RIBA).
Listing NGR: ST6170258781
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 32750
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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